Architectural Styles

Florida Cracker

Alt names / subperiods 

Timeline

Distinguishing Features

Geographic Presence

Cracker House

Florida Vernacular

 

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1870-1912

  • Wood framing and siding
  • raised on piers or stilts
  • Large porches
  • Steeply pitched gable roofs
  • tall and narrow Double-Hung Windows
  • Florida (USA)

Common Building Types

Landmark buildings

Historic Accommodation Types

Accommodation Examples

  • Residential homes
  • barns
  • outbuildings
  • Florida
  • Forest Capital Museum State Park
  • Forest Capital Museum State Park in Perry
  • Capt. Francis A. Hendry House LaBelle
  • Cracker House at the Florida State Fairgrounds
  • Stephens House at the Manatee Village Historical Park, Bradenton,
  • Old Mayo Free Press Building Mayo,
  • House of the Seven Gables Mayo,
  • Bensen House, Grant,
  • Plumb House
  • Winchester Symphony House
  • Laura (Riding) Jackson Historic House iVero Beach,
  • Asa May House Capps
  • Miakka School House Old Miakka
  • Godwin Family Cracker House

Not grand or monumental, but they did host travellers, especially before large resort hotels dominated Florida tourism.

 

  • Wayside inns / frontier inns
  • Boarding houses
  • Pensions / guest houses [Small, informal lodging for seasonal visitors especially common in river towns & early coastal settlements]
  • Small town hotels
  • River and steamboat hotels;Health and convalescent boarding houses
  • Plantation guest accommodation
  • Early tourist cottages [simple detached Cracker-style cottages rented seasonally – precursor to later tourist cabins and motor courts]
  • cabins
  • lodges
  • Pensacola Historic Village – Boarding Houses & Inns (Pensacola, FL)
  • Gamble Plantation Guest Accommodation (Ellenton, FL)
  • Fort Christmas Area Cracker Houses (Central Florida) – [Wayside lodging, Boarding rooms]
  • Steamboat-era River Hotels (St. Johns River, FL) – Palatka, Sanford, Enterprise
  • Old Cedar Key Hotels & Boarding Houses (Cedar Key, FL)

Adaptive Reuse

  • Florida Cracker Houses to Modern B&Bs – Micanopy, Mount Dora, Alachua County;

Landmarks

Adapted Visitor Accommodation

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